Ding Mao
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| birth_place = Mianyang, Sichuan, China
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| occupation = Entrepreneur
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| known_for = 1989 Tiananmen Square protest,
2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests
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Ding Mao ({{zh|丁矛}}), born in Mianyang, Sichuan on 9 November 1968, is a Chinese dissident. As a student, he was one of the leaders of the student democracy movement, known through the Tiananmen Square 1989 protest.{{Cite news | title=China: More than 200 arrests to quell the "jasmine revolution" in China | date=2 April 2011 |work=AsiaNews | url=http://www.asianews.it/news-en/More-than-200-arrests-to-quell-the-jasmine-revolution-in-China-21187.html |access-date=13 April 2011 }} He became general manager of an investment company, and one of the founders of the unrecognized Social Democratic Party. Mao was recently detained on 19 February 2011,{{Cite news | title=China: More than 200 arrests to quell the "jasmine revolution" in China | date=29 March 2011 |work=AFP / New York Daily Post }}{{Cite news |title=China arrests dissident in crackdown, human rights group says |date=13 April 2011 |publisher=CNN |url=http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-13/world/china.dissident.arrests_1_china-arrests-chinese-human-rights-defenders-china-democracy-party?_s=PM:WORLD |access-date=19 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110422072524/http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-13/world/china.dissident.arrests_1_china-arrests-chinese-human-rights-defenders-china-democracy-party?_s=PM%3AWORLD |archive-date=22 April 2011}} and held at Mianyang Municipal Detention Center before being released into residential surveillance on 2 December 2011.Qiao Long and Luisetta Mudie, [http://www.rfa.org/english/news/activist-12022011154154.html Activist Released 'Under Surveillance'], Radio Free Asia, 2 December 2011.
Biography
Ding Mao was a philosophy student at Lanzhou University in the late 1980s. There he became a student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy protests. He was twice imprisoned for his activism, first in 1989 and again in 1992 when he was arrested for organizing the Social Democratic Party. He has spent a total of 10 years in jail.
Detention during Jasmine Crackdown
On 19 February 2011, Mao was detained in Chengdu, Sichuan Province by police on "inciting subversion of state power". He was held at Mianyang Municipal Detention Centre for 286 days before being released into residential supervision.
Police in Mianyang City had blocked meetings between Ding and a lawyer hired for him by his family because, claiming that Ding's case "involved state secrets".{{Cite news | title=Individuals Affected by the Crackdown Following Call for "Jasmine Revolution" | date=15 April 2011 | work=Chinese Human Rights Defenders | url=http://chrdnet.org/2011/04/15/individuals-affected-by-the-crackdown-following-call-for-"jasmine-revolution"/ | archive-url=https://archive.today/20110417205122/http://chrdnet.org/2011/04/15/individuals-affected-by-the-crackdown-following-call-for-%E2%80%9Cjasmine-revolution%E2%80%9D/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=17 April 2011 | access-date=16 April 2011 }}
See also
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